Swete harm : Chivalry and the Consent to Violence in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Jean Froissart

Author / Editor
Nachtwey, Gerald R.

Title
Swete harm : Chivalry and the Consent to Violence in the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Jean Froissart

Published
DAI 66 (2005): 1680A

Description
Nachtwey argues that chivalry was "a pragmatic institution" that created a framework for understanding/controlling knightly violence. Further argues that this concept of chivalry is apparent in the works of Froissart and Chaucer (especially in TC and CT), as well as in a host of chivalric manuals.

Chaucer Subjects
Troilus and Criseyde.
Canterbury Tales--General.